Curvature and dynamical spacetimes: can we peer into the quantum regime?
arXiv:2209.12589 · doi:10.1088/1361-6382/acb9cd
Abstract
Stationary compact astrophysical objects such as black holes and neutron stars behave as classical systems from the gravitational point of view. Their (observable) curvature is everywhere "small". Here we investigate whether mergers of such objects, or other strongly dynamical spacetimes such as collapsing configurations, may probe the strong-curvature regime of General Relativity. Our results indicate that dynamical black hole spacetimes always result in a modest increase in the Kretschmann scalar, relative to the stationary state. Our results show that the Kretschmann scalar can dynamically increase by orders of magnitude, during the gravitational collapse of scalar fields, and that the (normalized) peak curvature does not correspond to that of the critical solution. Nevertheless, without fine tuning of initial data, this increase lies far below that needed to render quantum-gravity corrections important.
8 pages, 5 figures
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